She Wanted a Bad Ending, but She's Way Too Goofy [Book Transmigration]

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[Penniless, unlucky martial arts student x sweet-talking, blunt AI engineer]

[Both transmigrate into books]

After transmigrating into a book, she has to force the original story's happy ending to become a bad ending to avoid dying in real life.

Jiang Rao (cautiously): "I haven't transmigrated as a cannon-fodder, scheming black-lotus, sweet-talking villainess, have I?"

System: "No. The author is an unsophisticated old-fashioned sort who has never read that kind of book, so you're still the heroine."

Jiang Rao waved her hand grandly. "Since I'm the heroine... I know all the tropes. System, give me a golden finger!"

But before Jiang Rao could finish smiling, she received some devastating news.

Not only does she have no golden finger, she'll also have terrible luck all the time. Her father doesn't love her, her mother doesn't care for her, and she's destitute. The only way she can get money is by begging the male lead's family.

Jiang Rao: "...I haven't even done anything to anyone."

System: "Don't lose heart. This book comes with the standard package: a dark-moonlight rival, a white lotus, a devoted second male lead, and a rich mother-in-law who'll pay you to leave her son."

Jiang Rao's eyes lit up. "You mean I get all that too?"

Who would have thought that the coldhearted male lead, who had always acted superior and waited for the heroine to pursue him, would suddenly change his ways?

[The dark-moonlight rival secretly takes a photo of the heroine smiling happily with the second male lead and sends it to him.

Male lead: "Uh-huh, my wife still looks gorgeous from this awful angle. Also, that unidentified creature beside her looks like a wanted lunatic. Gotta go, I'm calling the police."]

[The white-lotus junior invites him to lend his name to a project for free.

The male lead frowns. "Stop right there. Don't try to freeload."]

[His rich mother complains to him: "I just threw three thousand yuan in her face! Three thousand! She still wouldn't leave you! What are you going to do when she starts asking you for a few hundred or a thousand yuan?"

Male lead: "...I just transferred her twenty thousand yuan, saying, 'Thinking of you makes me happy.' Mom, you..."]

[The devoted second male lead gets the special treatment of having the heroine serve him food.

Male lead: "You serve him, but not me. I get it. Being left out is my fate. After all, I'm just a weak, inarticulate concubine by your side. How could I compare to your senior brother, your legal husband?"]

[At an event where ten outstanding alumni share their experiences, his beloved advisor asks him, "Xiao Yu, what have you been reading lately?"

Male lead: "Cool Young Master, Don't Love Me So Much; I've Got My Eyes on You, Arrogant and Aloof Little Girl; The Bewitching Young Master Falls for His Adorable Maid... I've taken detailed notes on all of them. If any of the juniors want them, I can share them in the group chat."]

[The heroine frowns in despair. "I'm a firm believer in bad endings, but whenever I cry, make a scene, and threaten to kill myself, he coaxes, hugs, and pouts at me. Can someone do something about him? Tell him to stop researching those domineering CEO novels and leave me alone!"]

And yet...

He lounged in a leather chair at his computer, casually picking up the nearby romance guidebook he'd been practically wearing out lately. He checked the box for "play hard to get" and put a star beside "occasionally act hurt and worn out."

The System popped up. "You're working so hard. You haven't actually fallen for the heroine, have you?"

"No." Yu Zhixie yawned lazily, his eyes half-lidded. He answered without hesitation, "I just want to clear the level as quickly as possible."

System: "...So you were acting today too? Even when you nearly cried at the end?"

Yu Zhixie frowned almost imperceptibly and replied absent-mindedly, "Yeah."

Though, that said, the outcome keeps turning around and around...

[Is he faking his pursuit while being genuinely coldhearted, or is it hilarious because he's clearly head over heels?]

Or perhaps...

To find out what happens next, tune in for the next installment...

Reader's Guide:

One-on-one romance

Both leads are each other's first

Comedic in the early chapters, a little sadder later (the heroine will die if she doesn't get a bad ending, after all~). The ending is happy. A little angst is good for the soul, so don't worry ^V^

The martial arts sections are a little slapdash, so please bear with me (covers head).

Theme: Promoting Chinese martial arts